Too many writers and no few readers

Musfira Ameen

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It is sad for any publication when it receives less subscription request and more email by people saying they want to write. These days we observe that writers are increasing day by day due to freedom of expression at the same time readers are decreasing due to technological development.

Writing is the best way to express views, opinion and to make someone else think about a problem or a mystery. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings, but also what they observe and find in society.

As far as reading is concern the more that you read the more things you will know but apparently we could see that the young people are not reading and one of the major cause of lack of reading habit is due to technological development, new technologies have huge impact on our world in a much shorter time, today in our society technology is slowly taking a control over individual lives.

Student spend more hour on electronic media such as browsing net, connecting with different social networking like Facebook, twitter whereas they get less information and more entertainment and playing with funky handset passing non-stop SMS seems to be the routine of the day therefore written material in a quite or peaceful corner of the library. previously teachers used to recommend different books of different publication for digging material but now they also recommend different websites to find related stuff, however visiting different official website is not enough whereas going through the publication gives you added advantage so you have to have at least few issues in your hand to know what it is about and what kind of material it is publish.

Electronic media is another reason to replace the reading habit of individuals because it twisted to be an attractive way of representing information.

It is very sad to say that student rarely get interest in reading for pleasure they read books only to pass exams. Therefore government, teachers and media should jointly take steps to motivate and divert people to read books by introducing different programs and contests which may attract people towards reading.

Musfira Ameen MC2k10/51 

Practical work carried out under supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi